Leslie Carrara-Rudolph
Leslie and Lolly’s Bizarre Brunch
The Laurie Beechman Theatre, NYC, May 11, 2019
Reviewed by Bart Greenberg for Cabaret Scenes
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Ball of fire Leslie Carrara-Rudolph has spent over 15 years on Sesame Street as the beloved Abby Cadabby. She has now kicked off a monthly series of Bizarre Brunches at The Laurie Beechman Theatre, each with its own theme. Her first was quite appropriately about spring, including spring cleaning, which involved going through bags of things she had purchased and things friends had given her, from a raccoon-shaped radio whose nipples were the controls to a walrus-headed slinky.
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All to demonstrate her basic philosophy set to music: “If This Got Made,” anything is possible.
And anything seemed possible in this show. One minute she was offering up her natural strong voice in song (“Que Sera Sera” and “It’s a Good Day”), the next her companion puppet Lolly was belting out an “Ave Maria” at ear splitting levels for special guest Bob McGrath. Then Carrera-Rudolph transformed herself into a nose for a hysterical rendition of “Fever”; later she entered into the audience as a fortune teller who reads feet and enticed/bullied an unsuspecting gentleman into removing shoe and sock, which inexplicably led to him dancing with his date while she serenaded them with “Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps.”
Yes, there was a director for this mayhem, Pam Arciero, as well as a creative content and story editor, Jamie Donmoyer. Still, it felt largely free-wheeling, what with a Granny puppet complaining that her solo had been cut before launching into a hilarious and slightly blue question-and-answer session with the audience. A little less of everything might have given a bit more focus to the show, which often seemed that it might go spinning out of control and may have run just a bit long at 90 minutes.
But every time things began to lag, the hostess spun off into a new song, a new comedy routine, or a new invention that delighted the audience even more.
Also abetting the genial chaos were special guests Judy Glad Tomsko and Jessy and Jenna Tomsko, who offered up “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park,” perfectly apropos with the rest of the shenanigans, as well as music director Michael Hicks and percussionist Paul Rudolph (who could be counted on to stare lovingly at his wife and laugh at all her unexpected jokes).
